The federal government is fighting a judge’s ruling that Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, who wrote an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza and is fighting deportation, must be transferred back to an immigration facility in Vermont from Louisiana.

A federal judge has denied the government's appeal to stop the transfer of a Tufts university student back to Vermont.

A federal judge on Friday ordered Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University international doctoral student held in immigration custody in Louisiana to be returned to Vermont by next month where she will remain detained,